Jeremy Corbyn in pictures

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn takes part in a community meeting at the Guru Har Rai Gurdwara Sahib temple

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at an anti-racism rally in London

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The prime minister wants to hold a snap general election on June 8

Nicola Sturgeon is trying to convince people in Scotland that you can get rid of the Tories by voting SNP. She couldn’t be more wrong

Jeremy Corbyn

In a statement released by the Labour Party, he said: “There will be no coalition deal with the SNP and a Labour government.

“The SNP may talk left at Westminster, but in government in Scotland it acts right. A genuinely progressive party would not refuse to introduce a 50p top rate of income tax on the richest.

“The SNP wants to break up the UK; it has no interest in making it work better. Independence would lead to turbo-charged austerity in Scotland – not progressive politics.

“Nicola Sturgeon is trying to convince people in Scotland that you can get rid of the Tories by voting SNP. She couldn’t be more wrong.

“Only Labour or the Tories can win this election and voting Labour is the only way to remove Theresa May from office.”

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Jeremy Corbyn said the SNP were backwards

His comments will shatter Ms Sturgeon’s plans to keep the Prime Minister out of Downing Street as she looks to plough ahead with plans to drag Scotland out of the UK with a second independence referendum.

The SNP leader earlier said: “If the Parliamentary arithmetic lends itself to the SNP being part of a progressive alliance to keep the Tories out of Government then the SNP will seek to be part of that as we said in 2015.

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Sturgeon wanted to form a left-wing pact to oust Theresa May

"Now we are not sure that there are many people who think Labour will be in a position on their own or with anyone else to form a Government.

"There will be many people across England who will see that as a matter for regret."